Beelzebubs-Tales-to-His-Grandson-by-G-I-Gurdjieff

discreetly, to avoid touching those impulses inherent in them of self-love,pride, and so on."Thanks to his inquiries, Belcultassi gradually succeeded in evokingsincerity in his friends and acquaintances, and as a result he learned that theyall sensed and saw everything in themselves the same way that he did."Now among these friends and acquaintances of his were several seriousbeings not yet entirely enslaved by the action of the consequences of theproperties of the organ kundabuffer, and they also, having penetrated to thegist of the matter, became very deeply interested in it, and continued to verifywhat proceeded in themselves and independently to observe those aroundthem."Shortly afterward, again on the initiative of Belcultassi, they began tomeet together from time to time to share their observations and findings. As aresult of prolonged verifications, observations, and impartial conclusions, thisentire group of terrestrial beings became absolutely convinced, as Belcultassiwas, that they were not as they ought to be."A little later many other beings who also had such a presence joined theirgroup. And still later they founded the society which they named the 'Societyof Akhldanns.'"The word 'akhldann' then expressed the following concept: 'the striving tobecome aware of the sense and aim of the Being of beings.'"From the day of the founding of this society, Belcultassi himself stood at itshead, and the activities of its members were carried out under his generalguidance. For many of their years the society existed under the same name,and its members were called 'Akhldannsovors'; but later, when for purposes ofa general character they divided up into a number of independent groups, themembers came to be called by the names of their different groups.